Digital Media Facts

Overdrive

• 10 e-books or e-audiobooks can be borrowed at one time
• You can have up to 10 holds at one time.
• You can set your e-book checkout period to 7 or 14 days under My Account in Overdrive.
• If no one has a hold on the item, you can also renew for up to 14 more days.

Hoopla

• 8 checkouts per month.
• All titles available all the time; no holds required.
• You can check out Videos for 72 hours, music for 7 days, and audiobooks for 21 days.
• For streaming or temporary download, depending on item.

Freegal Music

• 5 downloads per week (that are yours to keep) and 5 hours of streaming per day.
• Music videos count as 2 downloads.

Comics Plus

• Comics, manga and graphic novels.
• Check out up to 5 items at one time for 7 days each.

Axis360

• Check out limit: 10 items.
• Check out time period: 2 weeks.
• Holds limit:  10 items.
• The time period a patron has to check out a hold after a hold fulfillment notification has been sent: 3 days.
• At this time there are no renewals.

OneClickDigital

• 10 e-audiobooks can be borrowed at one time.

EBSCO ebooks

• Downloadable e-books available by remote use only.

Registration by Mail

If you are a Texas resident and unable to physically come to the library to register for a library card, you can register by mail. Please print the Library Card registration form and send it, along with a good quality photocopy of your photo I.D. with your current address, to:

Houston Public Library
System Circulation Department (Library Card)
500 McKinney
Houston, TX 77002

You can also email a scanned copy of the completed application form and photo I.D. to circinfo@hpl.lib.tx.us.

It takes about 24 hours to process applications received by mail or email and prepare the card to be mailed, if all necessary information was included with the application.

Teen Writing Contest Extended

We have extended the Teen Writing Contest due date.  All entries are now due by 5:00pm on October 1, 2016. If a teen has already submitted an entry and would like to further revise their poem/short story before resubmitting they are allowed to do so.   Please email Rebecca Denham their first and last name and age so that she can pull the old entry.

New Marketing Processes

The 1st phase of our new plan begins TODAY, Monday, August 1, 2016. 

1. Use New Marketing Request form to submit for a new project. 
2. All communications for marketing requests are now through Communications - hpl.communications@houstontx.gov 
3. Use the Reprint/Outreach Request form for standard reprint and outreach material requests. 
4. Use the Marketing Equipment Rental to request any equipment (i.e.: banners, tablecloths) 

Starting November 1, 2016, the Marketing Team will promote 3 events per month for each library with the below marketing tools. Each library MUST input their events 3-months in advance in the online events module. We will follow a strict TIMELINE in order to make this process as smooth as possible. For the first run in November, we are extending the deadline to August 19.

Featured Event Marketing Tools:

• A featured event flyer 
• eNewsletter 
• Social media campaign